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it only really becomes an issue in my mind when the censoring parties can effectively shut down a company or user entirely. Then you can't really say "go somewh
by beaconstudios 9y ago
it only really becomes an issue in my mind when the censoring parties can effectively shut down a company or user entirely. Then you can't really say "go somewhere else", if there isn't somewhere else to go. If successive domain providers (and for smaller domains like .ai, there aren't that many) decide to kick someone from their service, that essentially grants them the ability to shut down companies whose speech they disagree with. The way we treat the internet in modern times, domain registrars are more akin to the water company than a private enterprise because they provide a constrained resource that one simply cannot substitute for something else.